Palila birds thrive on mamane seed pods, flowers and leaves. “To a certain extent it was a success,” said Chauncy “Kala” Asing, project coordinator for the Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Project. “There ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii high school students have helped scientists reach a groundbreaking milestone between science and education to protect critically endangered native Hawaiian bird ...

HILO Six endangered birds were released into the Big Island wilderness earlier this week as part of an effort to revitalize another species native to Hawaii. The palila were released as pairs on May ...

A proposed firebreak expansion project on Maunakea to protect the critically endangered palila has been approved by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. Jason Omick, wildlife biologist for the ...

Six healthy palila nestlings, a “critically endangered” small native songbird, were bred in captivity at the San Diego Zoo Global’s Maui Bird Conservation Center in the first full breeding season at ...

Six Palila were released into a newly restored forest on Hawaii Island. The six Palila that were hatched and raised at the San Diego Zoo Global’s Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, flew in the open air ...

Six endangered palila birds, hatched and raised at the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, took flight in a restored Hawaii island forest for the first time in their lives earlier this week. The release ...

San Diego Zoo Global announced Tuesday that a half-dozen critically endangered birds raised in its avian conservation facility on the Hawaiian archipelago have been released into the wild for the ...